Editor's Picks #229

2011-09-18T03:33:15-04:00

Richard Hamilton the British painter and printmaker and pioneering figure in Pop Art, died on Tuesday. Donna Sink, used it as a teachable moment noting "I *just* showed this collage to my students as an example of an experiential rendering of a non-specific space. RIP", referring to Richard Hamilton's 'Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?', which is often referred to as the first example of Pop Art.

In Archinect's newest feature CONTOURS: Whither Goest Thou, Green Economy?, Guy Horton, claims "If the Obama administration is guilty of anything it is of being too optimistic and, yes, hopeful. The culture, with all of its working and non-working machinery, was not ready for big green to be pushed into the mainstream." Then MixmasterFestus commenting on the issue of energy subsidies wrote, "Double subsidy, all the way! It's a shame we have such a Frankenstein's monster of policies, instead of a targeted set of subsidies that achieve desired results. We'd avoid unnecessary reduplication - like subsidizing energy to make it cheap, and then subsidizing the production of new sources of energy because it's not price-competitive to develop them." Don't forget to check in next week for the second feature in this series in which Guy Horton will examine "How the Great Recession has helped redefine what a green economy means."

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